I have had a horrible time over the last week. What you are about to read is something that I didn’t think would ever happen in my home and surely not by the person that did these things. What you are about to read is completely 100% true.
About a month ago or a little longer, I got a full time day nurse for Jamie. I was so excited. She had been here before more than once but never stayed for very long at a time. She never seemed to want to stay in the same spot for very long so when it was proposed for her to be here full time, long-term, I wasn’t sure that was a good idea but I went with it. I said sure and she started working full time with Jamie. I was very excited. She got me wanting to go back to school and wanting to have a career and a life of my own again.
Well, there were a few issues starting out. When asked to make sure that the trach ties were tucked in the way that we did them so that Jamie wouldn’t pull the wrong end and his trach come out, I was told that she was an excellent nurse, she knew what she was doing and didn’t need to be told what to do. Well, everytime that she did his ties, I had to fix them because they were never done the way I asked her to do them. She wanted to bring her son to work with her for the day and that is a STRICT Medicaid violation. She acted a little upset when I told her that wasn’t going to happen. One day I was in the car getting ready to take Jeremy to school when her and her daughter pulled up. I figured that she was being dropped off by her daughter since they had been sharing her car until her daughter’s car was fixed. As I was pulling out of the driveway, I saw her daughter and her go into my house. By the time I got back from the 5 minute trip I was getting upset. She has already been told that she couldn’t bring anyone to work with her and this time she didn’t ask first, she just did it. I made her call the agency so that they could tell her that she wasn’t allowed to do this because she didn’t want to listen to me. She called, was told that it couldn’t happen and made her daughter leave.
